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These Regulations are made under section 68 of the Mining Act and make further provision for mining and related matters in Fiji.They provide, inter alia, for: fees, rents and royalties (regs. 4-8), marking outof mining tenements, priority and adjustment of boundaries after survey of contiguous land (9-22), (application for a) prospector's right (23-26), prospecting licences (27-32), permits to mine and mining leases (33-49), special site rights including water rights (50-62), surveys and plans of mining tenements (73-78), export of minerals (80), pollution of water (82), surface protection and use of poisons (123), undercutting (127), and other matters relating to safety and the protection of environment and health. The holder of a mining tenement may divert or impound water for prospecting or mining purposes without obtaining a water right,provided that: (a) the diverted water is returned to its original channel and that the points of intake and return of the diverted water both lie within the area the subject of the mining tenement and that both the original water-course between such points of intake and return and the water-race to which the water is diverted lie wholly within such area; and (b) any dam constructed for the impounding of water on a mining tenement shall be only of such height and at such a distance from the boundary as in no way to interfere with the natural level of the stream above such boundary to the injury of any landowner or the holder of any other mining tenement.
Implements: Mining Act. (2005-03-21)
